Petition to remove Angela Corey

[Stuart]

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Remove State Attorney Angela Corey

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A 10 year-old has been charged with murder, yet he can’t understand sex until he’s 16?  This is exactly what the law is saying. 

If anyone touched that boy before he turned the legal age of consent, they’d go to prison for a long time and be considered a sex offender, yet when the boy stabs another in the heart, he suddenly has full mental capacity to know what he did.  I can’t believe the courts would actually end that boys future over a stupid, ignorant mistake that he had NO understanding of as far as ramifications.  TV, media and parenting are all to blame in this case.  Violent video games get their fair responsibility in it too. 

Where has this country screwed up?  Who in the hell are making these laws and calling the shots?  I can’t believe grown adults are so ignorant. 

I’m completely perplexed.  Perhaps you can help me understand.
 
 
 
10-year-old boy charged with murder
 
By Rick Boone FOX 5 San Diego Reporter
 
SAN DIEGO – Prosecutors filed murder charges Wednesday against a 10-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his 12-year-old friend in an East County neighborhood.
 
A detention hearing for the boy is planned for Thursday morning in Juvenile Court.
 
Ryan Carter, 12, was stabbed in the chest about 1:15 p.m. Monday in the driveway of the younger boy’s home in the 12500 block of Royal Road in the unincorporated Winter Gardens area, near El Cajon, according to sheriff’s officials.
 
Paramedics took Carter to Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, where he died about 2:30 p.m., Lt. Larry Nesbit said. The alleged killer’s name was withheld due to being a juvenile.
 
Glen Carter said his family is coping with their son’s death and has mixed feelings about the murder charge.
 
“It’s just sad for both families. This is going to be tough to get through,” Carter said. “It’s up to the courts now.”
 
The suspect’s age will play a factor in the trial.  The judge could require the 10-year-old to undergo mental evaluation which could take up to eight months before the trial could move forward, a criminal attorney told Fox 5.
 
The attorney said the suspect’s parents are not at fault, but could face civil action.
 
The suspect, who was reportedly being medicated for aggressive behavior problems, was being held in Juvenile Hall while prosecutors reviewed the case.

[Melissa]

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You are perplexed for perfectly good reason. These laws do not make sense. The literature does not support them. The brain of a 10 year old, 12 year old, or even a 16 year old is not fully developed in critical areas. To say these children are as culpable as adults is ridiculous and a very dangerous approach to these types of events. People in this country react emotionally to events when in reality we all have to take a step back and see the bigger picture here. We are dealing with children. All circumstances are unique, but these are children. The law should reflect science and research. And yet it does NOT.

[Bryan]

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There has not been much literature about adolescent psychology when many of these laws were written. What there there was thirty to fifty years ago looked like the test subjects came from prison or outer space. People who had a capital crime committed against someone they love or to themselves if it is not murder, go "age blind". They suddenly do not want any mercy, only death. Only since 2005, they cannot even get that. So they would not want the child to be locked up forever. They always ask for no second chance. It is using our government to wearhouse them forever.

This is why rich politicians write these unconstitutional laws. Whoever heard of rich kid getting murder one as an adult? There is both a classist and a racist angle in all of them.

[dustysdad]

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Then these children should be put into juvenile detention untill their considered an adult, then prosecuted as an adult.
Better yet; Prosecute their parents for failing to raise their children to be an adult.

[Bryan]

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I tend to disagree. A juvenile should be reformed not punished. That is why the juvenile system is set up in the first place. Your idea is considered a form of double jeopardy. You cannot try a person twice for the same crime. It is not right to convict a juvenile to reform school and then years later for the same crime in adult court.

Angela and her kind were trained in an era of mean-heartedness toward juvenile lawbreakers. It was also an era where the knowledge of juvenile psychology was more art than science. Her learning is a little bit the type that set the separate but fair juvenile system. Children should never have to pay for crimes like adults. Somehow since the 1970's, it did not matter anymore when prosecutors started to be concerned over the jobs if they were elected. It would be different if prosecutors were appointed like judges.

Fernandez is too young to face adult charges. One should be between sixteen and eighteen to face long jail sentences. You cannot protect the public with life without parole or other simular long jail sentences. All you do is create a monster. Why can't we use that money to reform the juvenile in the same time period as we do serious juvenile offenders. Why is murder and rape a lot different than repeat assult and theft convicts? All the "the victim does not get a second chance" excuses will not work anymore.